Luke Daniels: Revolve & Rotate review – modern morality tales and intriguing instrumentation

(Gael)Luke Daniels is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has appeared on film soundtracks and with the Cara Dillon Band, but is now an impressive singer-songwriter. His new album matches modern morality tales about greed with reminders of his skill on guitar, piano and zither banjo. And there’s an unexpected new addition. The Polyphon is a 4ft-high mechanical disc-playing music box, developed in Germany in the 19th century, which sounds like a combination of tinkling, high-register ...

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